This new Type I Hangar Facility is designed to house and support the introduction and maintenance of the Navy’s MH-GOR (Romeo) “Seahawk” Helicopters at the Navy Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. This facility houses five Navy Helicopter Squadrons and 330 personnel in five modules. Attached to each module are two-story support facilities consisting of workshops, storage facilities, and administrative and instructional spaces. Each hangar module will accommodate 13 helicopters, maintenance equipment and surrounding working clearance for each helicopter.
A motorized fabric hangar door from Megadoor, Peachtree City, Ga., closes off the hangars in inclement weather. The fabric door has a translucent full-length panel to provide filtered natural light to the interior. Additional natural light is introduced into the hangar bays by a continuous insulated clear story monitor, which runs the full length of the building. The project’s skylights are from Skylight Corp., a division of Vistawall (now Oldcastle Building Envelope), Terrell, Texas.
An exterior paved position helicopter wash rack is located at the north end of the building. Filter treated rainwater from the roofs of the hangar facility is harvested and stored in an underground cistern and is used to wash the helicopters.
The project scope included utility infrastructure improvements, repair and replacement of hangar aprons and tie-downs, new aircraft pavement markings, airfield security fencing and gates, pedestrian circulation and large parking lots for each module. Parking lots are paved with pervious asphalt paving material. This sustainable facility was designed to be a certifiable project under LEED Version 2.2. Exterior materials consist of an 8-foot (2-m) high split face CMU base wall with a 2-inch (51-mm) insulated metal panel system above from Metecno-Benchmark (now Kingspan Benchmark), Columbus, Ohio.
Windows from EFCO, Monett, Mo., to the support spaces are extruded thermal break aluminum with tinted insulated glass shaded from the west sun by curved cantilevered perforated metal sunshades from Ruskin Swartwout, Kansas City, Mo. The project also featured structural steel and metal deck from Midwest Steel Inc., Detroit, and bar joist from Vertex Steel, Milford, Mich. The metal panel installer was East Iowa Decks, Burr Ridge, Ill. The architect was Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc., Dayton, Ohio.
Metecno-Benchmark (now Kingspan Benchmark), www.kingspanpanels.us
